Port of Indiana

Mount Vernon

River commerce was central to the livelihood of nineteenth century towns along the Ohio. This is still true in the twenty-first century. The Port of Indiana Mount Vernon is the eighth largest inland port in the country based on ...

30th Indiana Infantry

Burial Place

Burial Place

30th Indiana Infantry

9 Bodies Removed

to

Nat'l Cemetery.

Marker is on Sherman Road 0.2 miles north of Hamburg-Purdy Road, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First Presbyterian Church

First congregation organized in Columbia (1795). The churchyard, allotted as a public burying ground in 1798, was granted to this church 1813. Here are buried: D.E. Dunlap, first pastor; Chancellor H.W. DeSaussure; Jonathan Maxcy, first President of S.C. College; ...

City of Bartlett

Settlers began moving to this area in the 1830s, when Texas was a Republic, but the town of Bartlett was not established until the 1870s. The founders were J. Edward Pietzsch and Capt. John T. Bartlett, for whom the community ...

Site of German-English School

(50 Yards West)

Established by German immigrants in 1880, the German-English School was an early school in the Bartlett area. First called Indian Creek School, the name was changed due to popular usage and the nature of instruction, which was in ...

Fort Frederica

In 1736, on this historic site, Fort Frederica was constructed by the early settlers of the Colony of Georgia under General James Edward Oglethorpe. It was the strongest fortification built by Great Britain on American soil and its purpose was ...

Frederica - Indian Interpreter

Mary Musgrove Matthews " has always

been in great esteen with the General,... for

being half Indian by extract, she had a very

great influence upon many of them, particulary

the Creek Nation...."

William Stephens

February 22, 1740

In 1743, Mary Musgrove Matthews, General Oglethorpe's ...

Site of Booker T. Washington School

With overcrowded buildings at the African American school in southwestern Bartlett, the Bartlett trustees bought four buildings from Camp Swift in Bastrop to enlarge the facilities. A bond issue passed in 1948, and plans began for a U-shaped building. Otto ...

First Baptist Church of Bartlett

Originally known as Pecan Grove Baptist Church, this fellowship was organized in 1873 by the Rev. M.V. Smith, The Rev. H.I. Kimball, and the Rev. G.W. Baines, great-grandfather of United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson. In 1884 the church was ...

Frederica - Old Burial Ground

" This Frederica is a very strange place; it

was once a town-the town,the metropolis of

the island."

Francis Anne Kemble

Visitor to Frederica

1839

Here, in unknown graves more than two centries old,

lie many of the early settlers of Frederica. Although

the town they ...